www.thejewelleryshop.net

I've been waiting (very patiently) for my site to be reviewed and I realise that I now have to wait 6 months between site submission status's

However, I've just read something on another message from an editor that I may be patiently waiting in the wrong category.

I have just read the following reply on a different post...

Your site does not qualify for a Regional listing according to the category description: Businesses that offer only online, phone, or mail order sales will not be listed in Regional Shopping categories

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If this is the case - have the rules changed recently as I wasn't aware of this when I first submitted (may well have been my error!).

If this is the case, should I submit my site to a different category or wait in hope that when it is reviewed it will be put in the relevant category?

Thank you for your time.

If your business (note that I said business, not website) does not have a brick and mortar facility that customers can visit, and only sells online, and the website has a complete shopping experience (products, prices and checkout), then you should submit once to the deepest possible shopping category that encompasses the bulk of your business.

If you do so, you may come back to this thread no sooner than 30 days after the resubmission, and armed with a clickable link to the new category, you may ask for a status check.

Some free advice: give serious thought to the shopping category where you submit. submitting too high will almost guarantee a long, drawn out approval process because the editors have to sort through swamps of submissions that are made too high, and then send them to the correct categories where they then await review. In effect, by submitting too high, one really penalizes oneself, as the site has to sit through two submission pools. A key thing is that too many submitters, full of legitimate pride in their businesses, try to find a category that encompasses 100% of their business, rather than being realistic and saying, 'I sell jewelry" and simply forgetting that they have a candy machine in the corner. Finding a cat for jewelry and candy together leads to too many submissions in Shopping/ So choose carefully, my friend.

Many thanks Spectregunner for your reply. I'm not sure tho if it answers the question raised - if I do not have a bricks and mortar facility, should I NOT be waiting in a regional shopping category.

Apologies if I'm being dense here.. I THINK I have submitted it in the deepest possible category appropriate for this website, but that is in Regional Shopping - and from the other post I have read, I'm not sure if I should have submitted to the deepest possible category somewhere else

If GillS became an editor would she not have more chance of getting listed? I've heard that you have to give the URL's of 3 different sites that are similar to the section that needs moderated then you can add your own site. Is this true?

Thanks, so as I have been waiting in Regional for yonks, should I now resubmit to a shopping category that is not regional? There are many sites in Regional that don't have a bricks and motar presence - is this because they would have been added a long time ago and the rules have changed/tightened?

Sorry to keep asking these questions, but we have waited so long in regional i don't want to make any unncessary changes to our application.

Should we resubmit somewhere else or should we wait for the editor of the regional cateogory to change it for us when they eventually review the site?

Thanks for your patience!

Thanks Dogbows, I've now submitted it to a shopping category.

Hi,

I submitted to the ODP two years ago. Please could you tell me the status of my submission?

thank you.

Please could someone check my status? Not sure if it's ok to bump a thread, but i think my last status check might have slipped through.

Thanks

This is one category...

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Jewellery

and this is the other...

http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Jewelry/Costume/

(hopefully ).

http://www.thejewelleryshop.net/ is waiting for review in both those cats.